The Notre Dame Fighting Irish hockey team lost its first game in 87 days as they fell to the no. 18 Wisconsin Badgers Sunday afternoon at the United Center by a score of 5-0. The loss snaps Notre Dame’s school record win streak at 16 games.
The Badgers (12-12-3, 6-8-2-0 B1G) jumped on the Irish (19-4-1, 13-1-0-0 B1G) early, opening the scoring at 15:07 of the 1st period and never looked back. Wisconsin added short-handed and power-play goals in the 2nd period and two goals in the final minute of the game to finish off the 5-0 victory over No.